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billyvg··on Apache ECharts
Late to the party here but we (Sentry) have been using ECharts since 2018 (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9072) and still holding strong!
billyvg··on Amazon's Fake Review Problem
I encountered this problem while trying to do Christmas shopping on Amazon. An example is this (parachute hammocks): https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias...

I don't know anything about them, I'm not familiar with manufacturers, but this search result brings up very similar items from "different" companies. What's even more suspicious is that there are MULTIPLE results that have 1-2 thousand reviews and are at a perfect 5*.

billyvg··on Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
would `command W w` fix this?
billyvg··on Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
1. That is another issue, the USPTO issuing patents that shouldn't be issued.

3. They don't seem to be against patents, just against non-practicing entities. Did you even read the article?

billyvg··on The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command
It does more then substitution

  $ git pull
  There is no tracking information for the current branch.
  Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.
  See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

  If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> test

  $ fuck
  git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/test test && git pull [enter/↑/↓/ctrl+c]
billyvg··on Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal
My friends and I have used GroupMe (which is owned by Skype) for a few years now and some of us wanted to migrate due to privacy. We tried out Signal, but there were some major usability problems in you intend to use it as a "group chat" replacement. My biggest issue with it is that there is no mute feature for iOS. Yes you can turn off notifications at the iOS level, but I want the ability to only have @-mentions to have access to notifications.

I made us switch to WhatsApp instead as I think the usability/privacy balance was better (for our use case).

billyvg··on Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
We'll probably never know, most people that settle with patent trolls have confidentiality agreements
billyvg··on Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
I don't think it's ruined football at all. The older fans certainly still have team allegiances, while fantasy helps new fans get interested in the NFL.

Yeah advertisements suck, but any television programming also face the same problems. The great thing with watching football is that you're already conditioned to not pay attention to the game for 30 seconds every 10 seconds.

billyvg··on Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
- You can watch sports at home, on a TV, through your OTA antennae, costing you nothing

- When was the last time you learned something about yourself or others while watching an eSports event? Do they cause you to think at all?

billyvg··on The Current State of Smart Locks
I have been using the August for a few months now and I have a hard time recommending it to people. Smart locks need to be reliable and if they aren't then you lose trust in your lock, and, well if you lose trust in your lock, what's the point of owning it.

* Auto-unlock is great when and if it works, and is the only reason to own the August. Unfortunately it's currently iOS only.

* Everlock is currently in "beta" (it's the feature that auto-locks your door after 30 seconds), but one night after my friends left the house, it didn't re-lock itself, so now we can't trust one of the few features of the lock anymore.

* Opening the door with your phone itself is a slow and painful process. It takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds for the phone to connect to the lock before you can control it (this doesn't include unlocking your phone, opening the app, and selecting which lock to connect to). It's absolutely unusable for day-to-day users. There's no point in using this when your keys work faster. However, I can say this is useful for people that do not live in the home, i.e. friends, cleaners, pet sitters, etc.

That said, I have an extra August coming in that I'm not sure what to do with. Christmas is coming up and I absolutely do not want to give it out as a present because it's just not ready.

billyvg··on Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?
you can do that with itunes
billyvg··on META: The Stylish Rivals Of Google Glass
If this is stylish, I don't want to have style.
billyvg··on The San Francisco Rent Explosion
It's far away from, well, everything, there's not much happening on the coast, generally very foggy.
billyvg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)
Woopra (http://www.woopra.com/) - San Francisco, CA Leading customer analytics company.

We just moved to a new bigger space in the heart of SoMa SF (1 block away from the caltrain station). We're looking to fill a few positions:

* Frontend Engineer

* Sysop Engineer

* Software Engineer (Java)

* UI/UX Designer

* Sales Specialist

To apply, visit http://www.woopra.com/careers/ or email us at careers@woopra.com.

billyvg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
Woopra (http://www.woopra.com/) - San Francisco, CA Leading customer analytics company. We just moved to a new bigger space in the heart of SoMa SF (1 block away from the caltrain station). We're looking to fill 2 positions: * Frontend Engineer * Sysop Engineer To apply, visit http://www.woopra.com/careers/ or email us at careers@woopra.com.
billyvg··on A new Light Table experience
Nevermind, there's a "Toggle vim mode" command
billyvg··on A new Light Table experience
How do I go into vim mode?
billyvg··on Show HN: iPhone App I've been building is in the store
Being able to import lists from other external sources would be nice, i.e. foursquare, amazon, netflix.
billyvg··on Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about?
Janus MacVim distribution - editor

VLC - video player

iTunes - music

Alfred - launcher

Divvy - window management (can create hotkeys for resizing/positioning windows)

Kaleidoscope - great diff tool

I use the default Mail and Calendar apps

billyvg··on Ask HN: What monitor do you use?
I have a 27" Apple LCD, 2560x1440...

I would check these out, supposedly the same LCDs used but a lot more affordable: http://www.ebay.com/sch/dcsamsungmall/m.html?_nkw=monitor...

Forum thread about them: http://bit.ly/GMvsdP

billyvg··on Help me pick a cellphone
I suggest going to your local Verizon shop and playing with the iPhone and Android phones first and seeing which phone OS you like more.

If you decide on going the iPhone route, definitely wait until September-ish until the new batch of iPhones are [rumored] to come out.

I don't know too much about Verizon's selection of Android phones, but my friend just got a Samsung Charge, and it felt pretty nice.

billyvg··on Apple releases iOS 5 beta 3 to developers [updated with full change log]
Too bad their servers are slow as can be.
billyvg··on Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.
"The significance is essentially that women are rare, and males take any chance they get to flirt with any good looking girls who end up playing the game."

I fail to see the significance of this, how does a male flirting with a female in an MMO benefit the guild at all? In fact I would even say that having females in the guild is more detrimental to the guild. You have a bunch of males trying to flirt with that one "good looking" girl in the guild, and what do you get? Drama. And that drama eventually leads into the downfall of the guild.

I don't think you can compare the environment of a professional setting with that of a video game (in this case at least).